radiationist

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radiationist

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From radiation + -ist.

noun radiationists

  1. nonstandard, rare One whose (medical or scientific) profession is to apply radiation or radioactive material (to someone or something). More than 100 fatalities were recorded among these pioneer radiationists. One of the earliest and now best known incidents of Industrial radiation injury is that of the radium dial painters. During and immediately after World War I, a number of women worked in a war plant painting luminous watch and
  2. rare One who believes in or claims to practice extrasensory perception by sensing radiation. I am not subscribing here to the theory of Richet or to that of the radiationists who believe that the perception is due to radiations given off from an object or a drawing. My emphasis is rather upon the percipient. The human being is dynamic, not the target. If there are any radiations, they must

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@misc{radiationist_2026,
  title = {radiationist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/radiationist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}